VanillaTV: What features would you like on stream?

atmo — A few of the backroom crew at VanillaTV have been working on bringing additional information to the viewers during casts. You may have already seen an early sign of this in Arie‘s lovely damage stats overlay. We would like to hear from the community if there are any other such broadcast features that you would like made available. If you mention a feature seen in traditional sports broadcasting, a reference link to an example would be very appreciated.

Bruno is a dota2 caster. There isn’t much to link to that would give more information. He just keeps a lot of stats. Even silly things like amount of games won with a team consisting of heroes without legs. The guy has stats on literally everything.

Timer is thing i want to see most, and then more stats being talked about with casters, and jst more effort for streamers to spec actions that casters are referring to. Other than this, rly great stuff from the casts, loving all the work everyone is/has done. Awesome!

Twelve more people who can spec each player in real time, and inform the streamer/casters whenever there is a big play incoming, like an airshot or something. Okay, maybe not twelve people, but you get the point.

Correct, our streamers have the option of using an event feed that’s 20 seconds ahead of the STV. That can’t show airshots unfortunately, but here’s an example of what it does show:i.imgur.com/LnJHL6B.png

comming from a viewer point of view, and how to get more people immersed in play, players should always use their league registered names and clan tags.
it sometimes gets a little confusing when people use comedy/alt names. this gets even worse when the casters start saying the proper names in quick play mass skirmishes and you’re not 100% sure who to keep an eye on instantly. it may be funny for ‘those in the know’ but to a new(er) viewer its pretty bad and not very professional.
someone just compiling ‘big’ replays for inbetween rounds and at breaks too would be good too as Admirable said. also, an end game highlight reel, prematch in depth stats, you really just have to look at major sporting events for tips.
it would be also good to get some of the pro players in as guest casters. it adds more weight to commentary. i realise most are ex/active pros, but still, people like to hear from the current really top players, no disrespect to the current casters who do a superb job as it is.
the americans do this well. i’m forever watching american casters like seanbud, ruwin, pyyyour, lansky, djc, b4nny, etc. i also watch bytes stream, and did a bit of warhur’s too though he’s been a little inactive recently. byte does a great job promoting the EU community doing .dem reviews, playing low level pubs and having fun, it all acts as good promotion. the active players could do a lot to help you guys out by following his lead a little. (sorry kadius, forgot to add you and your tip/rollout nights) even some of you casters could do the same. it was pledge that got me into watching streams a lot more by playing on pubs i play and being friendly.
tl;dr – player names and clan tags during matches, stats, replays, players and casters actively promoting the streaming community on pubs.